The Schofield Kid: Yea...well I guess they had it comin'.
William Munny: We all have it comin' kid.
Movie quote from The Unforgiven.
Posted on 02/20/2020 3:11:59 PM PST by Responsibility2nd
A death row inmate who was convicted of killing four people — but who saved the lives of three corrections officers while in prison, according to his lawyer — is scheduled to be executed Thursday night.
Tennessee Governor Bill Lee denied Nicholas Sutton’s clemency on Wednesday.
“After careful consideration of Nicholas Sutton’s request for clemency and a thorough review of the case, I am upholding the sentence of the State of Tennessee and will not be intervening” Lee said in a statement. Sutton, 58, was sentenced to die for fatally stabbing a fellow inmate in 1985, when he was serving life sentences for killing three other people, including his grandmother.
The clemency application says he’s a changed man who “has undergone personal transformation, a man who is worth far more to our society and prison system alive than dead.”
Sutton is credited with saving the lives of multiple correction officers, according to the clemency application that defense lawyer Kevin Sharp sent to the governor in January.
One of those officers, Tony Eden, says Sutton saved his life during a prison riot in 1985.
“A group of five inmates, armed with knives and other weapons, surrounded me and attempted to take me hostage. Nick and another inmate confronted them, physically removed me from the situation and escorted me to the safety of the trap gate in another building,” Eden, a retired correction official said in the clemency application. “I owe my life to Nick Sutton.”
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Sutton, 58, ordered fried pork chops, mashed potatoes with gravy and peach pie with vanilla ice cream, according to the Tennessee Department of Correction
No vegetables?
Potato.
They ought to have given him clemency for murdering the child rapist.
They ought to have given him clemency for murdering the child rapist.
Not exactly a healthy meal. Eating like that can shorten your lifespan.
I don’t normally have any truck with clemency applications for murderers. The exception is where they have saved lives. That, I think, is an act of redemption. A life saved for a life taken.
He’s just a good ‘ole boy.
He DID save 3 people. But he killed 4.
A net loss. Fry him.
One reason for granting clemency is to encourage other inmates to step in to save guards and other personnel, when they are in danger; a reward offers an incentive to do so, rather than to stand aside.
God will have the last say.
One of them was a child rapist. That doesn’t count as a negative.
No applesauce?
Can’t have fried pork chops without applesauce
One of those he killed was a pedophile, so it’s a wash...
“I don’t normally have any truck with clemency applications for murderers. The exception is where they have saved lives. That, I think, is an act of redemption. A life saved for a life taken.”
Agree.
By the way, my first car was a Delta 88! Great car with bench seats.
Perhaps he mitigated his punishment in the afterlife but in this one he must get even with the house.
“No vegetables?”
Yeah, that’s unhealthy.
The Schofield Kid: Yea...well I guess they had it comin'.
William Munny: We all have it comin' kid.
Movie quote from The Unforgiven.
Good point. But that begs the question.
Is Sutton a changed man? Or did he act merely in a moment of self preservation? Only saving those lives because it benefited him?
Here’s a question: Would Sutton have turned a blind eye - even maybe killed those guards - if it meant freedom? A chance to get clean away?
We may never know. But I do know this. Whether Sutton lives or dies tonight; he had best hope he made his peace with God.
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